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Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Post by phil21 »

chasd00 wrote: post #117
tracker1 wrote: post #113

Kind of cool to hear... I had a couple computers running miners at home towards the end of my second marriage (which ended in 2010-2011), and after I had a few coins when realizing I couldn't actually spend them (IIRC $0.25 at the time), I just deleted the wallets. I had no foresight or faith that they'd be worth around $100k each in 15 years. I'm curious how many did the same, how many coins out there were just dele…

i distinctly remember a coworker many years ago offering to just give me like 10 bitcoin to see them and how it worked. i said "no, thanks". granted, hindsight is 20/20

I might have been your co-worker.

I went from giving them away to anyone in the office who asked (very very few), to selling them for under market when they were in the $10-50 range. Only three people took me up on the offer then, and they bought moderately life changing amounts I've later been thanked for. Such as a down payment for someone's first home after he got married. Luckily they held onto enough of their coins to make a meaningful difference in their lives like I preached about at the time.

The number of folks who ping me at various BTCH ATH hitting the news is expressing regret and laughing about it is... a lot!

It was strange being the "Weirdo Bitcoin guy" for a time. Then you started hearing about it in the mainstream news/etc. and it got even stranger to me.

I did quite well for myself, but of course wish I could go back in time and actually go balls to the wall on my early mining operation. I thought I was being irresponsible enough as it were - maxing out my rental townhouse's electric service with a rack of GPU miners in my basement, and some sketchy DIY electrical work to make it all happen.

Unfortunate to me cryptocurrency devolved into such a horrible place with the shitcoins, etc. I dropped out from the scene fairly early since I was a True Believer and became quite disenchanted with the whole thing. All I was there for was "digital p2p cash" - I never once foresaw it as a major store of value.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Post by ApolloFortyNine »

nonethewiser wrote: post #146
ApolloFortyNine wrote: post #32

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Explaining your life to an llm, then having it generate permutations of passwords to try does sound like it would work a decent percentage of the time. A large percentage of passwords aren't a random string of characters but a memorable word + memorable number. There's existing projects that basically do the same, and 3.5 trillion doesn't really make it clear if one of those wouldn't have worked as well, but I can se…

>Explaining your life to an llm, then having it generate permutations of passwords to try does sound like it would work a decent percentage of the time. I cannot relate to this at all. This information doesn't really seem that helpful. What might the strategy look like? Including spouses names or other proper nouns associated with you. But it's going to be a massive brute force effort still, and the likelyhood of a t…

The amount of times I've gotten told a password and it contains birth year or anniversary year, maybe child birth year, is insane. I'd say 9 times out of 10 it's that or a dictionary word.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #45
SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #29

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Maybe they said they were gay?

(Relevant; there was a “gay jailbreak” thread a week or so ago. I laughed.)

Heh. I was going to let the context just float and see how many people tried to hide/kill it. Thus of course not realizing the actual irony in forcing away my comment that someone who didn’t know better might think was derogatory is exactly why a gay jailbreak exists.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Post by DANmode »

Barbing wrote: post #95
wolttam wrote: post #58

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By my estimation (guess) you won't actually need to spend that much because the models are already getting a point where they don't need to get a whole lot better to be extremely helpful across many domains. And it looks like those very helpful capabilities will continue to transfer to smaller models as well, as architectures and training regimes continue to refine. I can fairly easily imagine a world where the only…

[sci-fi “AGI” scenario] What if those with elite model access philosophize in a way us mere mortals can’t understand, so the elites have to prechew the ideas for us to bring them to our level, and they control the narrative? In reality now, curious about social implications generally. Does this go beyond problem solving? Maybe the intelligence per token you get via your free library card/membership is insufficient to…

Real world AGI scenario:

that’s already how world financial markets and governance work,

and yes, the best of the best models

and $ for tons of compute

will, for now, remain at the top.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Post by Ccecil »

baggachipz wrote: post #162
stavros wrote: post #143

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I think you would have been much better off choosing the bitcoin option. You'd have gotten around 40 BTC back, I think.

I don't believe I had the option. I just filed my claim, and several years later a check showed up.

Perhaps you should log in and verify. Maybe you missed the step about setting up an account on an exchange to get it transferred.

There was quite a few steps...maybe you still have something coming.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Post by [deleted] »

anon291 wrote: post #159
sitzkrieg wrote: post #134

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very trustworthy of the system sharing your taxes with a third party

People's tax returns are essentially public (yes I know they're not allowed to disclose them). Didn't send the forms in with social security numbers. This absurd concern for privacy is silly in my opinion. The moment something is submitted to the government it ought to be considered public. Even your social security number is essentially public for anyone who cares to find it. I would not submit my bank account infor…

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Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Post by fragmede »

sitzkrieg wrote: post #134
anon291 wrote: post #91

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Same... I had chatgpt go over my taxes (I do it myself) and it found a number of savings I qualified for

very trustworthy of the system sharing your taxes with a third party

What's the threat model here? OpenAI gets my social security number and Sam Altman steals my identity? OpenAI leaves an S3 bucket open to the public and my filled out 1040.pdf gets leaked to the world?

Oh no, OpenAI knows how much money I make and they're going to send me ads! Ads that are relevant to my interests. How connivingly evil of them!

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Post by DANmode »

unshavedyak wrote: post #165
DANmode wrote: post #119

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You can run 6-12 month old state of the art models for that type of money, like, yesterday.

Yea, but i don't consider them good enough. I barely consider SOTA good enough. I'm hoping that by the time the rugpull happens with SOTA (claude/etc) that at-home will be in the 4.7-5.5 range? We'll see.

They were good enough 6-12 months ago.

Maybe your tooling is what’s keeping you from your dream.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Post by DANmode »

atonse wrote: post #129
unshavedyak wrote: post #110

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I am eagerly awaiting being able to run a strong local model. I'd hand Apple $5k right now for a Claude in a box. I know the cost might not be there now, just saying that is around my ideal price point. $10k might even be worth it - but i'm assuming that the more expensive it is the beefier it is too, which also means more electricity.. and i already run ~6 computers/servers in my house. If a power surge happens i'm…

I would do the same but my issue is that the models are changing so fast, so I don't want to be left out of the next model cuz it only runs on an even newer GPU or something like that. But maybe my limited understanding is thinking of this wrong.

Focus on what’s actually required for your workflows.

Anything beyond that is just hobby, or continued education.

Re: Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

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Post by DANmode »

unshavedyak wrote: post #166
templar_snow wrote: post #156

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Uh... get a UPS?

I do, though they're not as bullet proof as you'd hope to my understanding. Hell i have one at the house level too - since i have an EV sitting behind that as well.

Are you in a region that doesn’t mandate grounded electrical systems?

(UPS is still a great idea for your expensive gear.)

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